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Original Journey
Join the forces of the Ato as they set off on a journey across the universe to save their planet from a slow death. Find out how far one species is willing to go to save itself in this gorgeous hand drawn action adventure from Bonfire Entertainment.
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8 reviews found85
Chalgyr's Game Room
Aug 16, 2017
Original Journey is an interesting beast that doesn’t show it claws until you are several hours in and then realize: it’s been several hours. Taking the best parts of a side scrolling shooter and a Roguelike, welcome to the end of an alien race’s time as they perform their last ditch effort in order to not perish and become another of the galaxy’s footnotes. The ideas that make the wheel turn are simple yet the execution is one that had me going for hours at a time.
80
Sick Critic
Aug 21, 2017
Summary and quote unavailable.
80
Hooked Gamers
Aug 21, 2017
Summary and quote unavailable.
75
CGMagazine
Aug 16, 2017
Summary and quote unavailable.
75
Areajugones
Aug 15, 2017
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50
Cubed3
Aug 15, 2017
With its surreal visuals and quirky character design, Original Journey has little trouble drawing attention. Determining whether or not it can retain that attention will depend entirely on the player. On its own, the platforming and shooting aren't all that tightly designed. Relying on level-ups and gear to maintain interest only goes so far. Given a long enough period of time, most gamers will feel like they're just going through the motions.
35
COGconnected
Aug 15, 2017
Contrary to its name, Original Journey is far from an original adventure, offering little to motivate players to see its campaign through. If not for the sake of this review, I would have thrown in the towel long ago. Unless you’re really keen on checking out some hand-drawn art, steer clear of Original Journey.
30
Gamer Escape
Aug 15, 2017
At the end of the day, Original Journey takes a solid concept of a shooter with a unique art style that sends you through progressively harder gauntlets with the gamble to proceed or head back to the start and bank your earnings, and mars it with a number of poor design decisions. Thankfully this is a game in the online age, and even the review copy I played was drastically improved over the course of my review (An early patch drastically improved drop rates so it no longer took hours for the earliest upgrades). Perhaps it will be improved down the road, but for the time being I cannot recommend it. ~Final Score: 3/10~ Review copy provided by Another Indie for PC.
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